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this has been keeping me up at night. the graybeards are old men. there are (excluding paarthurnax) only four of them. their ancient order is dying out. they probably took in ulfric in order to impart to him their monastic tradition and pass their philosophy down to the next generation of nords. and instead of remaining at high hrothgar in the life of contemplation that he'd chosen for himself ulfric spent over a decade learning all he could from the graybeards of the thu'um and then went back down the mountain and started blowing people up with his voice. and arngeir has nothing to say about it

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If I had a nickel for every time I’ve fallen headfirst into shipping a flirty ace-coded high elf with daddy issues with a neurodivergent wizard nerd with a cat I’d have two nickels.

Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it’s happened twice.

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LA DANSE MACABRE!

(Verses from “The Last Steampunk Waltz”, by Ghostfire.)

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dumbest part of skyrim: why cant i just fucking lie to people?

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Cicero is such a complicated and variably authentic guy, and how you think of him depends on when and why you think he's lying. Or if he even knows what his own truth is anymore. There are plenty of ways to write him that feel true and in character, but it's still hard to predict if my writing will resonate with others, or if I'm writing a Cicero who only lives in my head.

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I love Rorikstead. You go there and the quests are like "Tony the potato farmer needs his rake back from Greg the cabbage farmer" and then you go snooping through people's shitty little farm houses to find books dedicated to the worship of demons and dialogue pointing to secret wizards and suspicious lack of women, even with children running around. Nothing comes of it though. No quest for you to do other than to get Tony his rake back for a 25 septim reward and sit with a weird series of off-putting facts that don't even paint you an entire picture. You just know it's a weird place in your heart and you have to live with that.

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haha funny picture

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wip excerpt ft. The Doorknocker

thanks @wispstalk for the wip wednesday tag!

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So this is Nayir. He is a Wood Elf born from a union between a Bosmer and a Giant. He was raised Forsworn but chose to live a more druidic lifestyle. He is a gentle giant.

Halsin from Baldur's Gate III broke the glass ceiling for me in how elves can be. I wanted a tall elf with BIG muscles in Skyrim too! Much like how Astarion's personality inspired Taliesin's sass, Halsin inspired Nayir's appearance.

Nayir is a BIG boy. I put him next to Kaidan and Remiel for a size comparison, naturally, I also put him next to Auri. She only comes up to his belly button! ;__;

I made him into a follower for my Skyrim game to experiment outside of vanilla assets. I was able to get him with custom skin, hair, eyes, brows, scars and bodyshape.

Do I have plans to give him a custom voice and release him into the nexus? Hell yeah I do!

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Evil Clown Contest Finals

Remember, the contests I run are double elimination. You have to lose twice to be out of the running. That's why Jevil is going against Cicero a second time.

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some of my fav bois bc why not

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why would you like media that is good if you can like media that is bad instead and pace around your room like an insane person thinking about What If It Was Good

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those little creatures that lives on Nirn

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Attention intruders into Apocrypha: please do not swim in/fall into the liquid information surrounding the library floors. It will dissolve your essence into a kind of slag that's really hard to separate out. I don't want you smudging my books with what used to be your spirit

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He's become self-aware.

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Cicero taking one look at Astrid and her family: “Y’all need Sithis.”